Recounts the efforts of desperate people to acquire sudden wealth in 1930s New Mexico, and sets off the sixteenth-century search for El Dorado against the street-of-gold vision of America destroyed by the Great Depression
Paul Horgan was an American author of fiction and nonfiction, most of which was set in the Southwest. He received two Pulitzer Prizes for history.
The New York Times Review of Books said in 1989: "With the exception of Wallace Stegner, no living American has so distinguished himself in both fiction and history."